Chris Turney is a recently completed Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor of Climate Change and Earth Science at the University of New South Wales. Working across the globe, Chris is extending historic records back to 130,000 years ago to improve projections of future climatic and environmental change. As part of this work, Chris set up and co-ordinates the international Earth's Past Future Project (www.earthspastfuture.com). He is UNSW node Director and Climate Theme Leader of the new Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodoversity and Heritage (https://cabah.org/) and is a member of the International radiocarbon Calibration group (IntCal). In UNSW, he is co-director of the Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research (PANGEA) Centre and is also a member of the Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC). Chris co-ordinates and teaches on GEOS3761 ‘Environmental Change’.

Chris has published more than 170 research papers, 1 textbook and 3 popular science books, attracting more than 14,000 citations. He has an H-index of 44 in Scopus (49 in Google), and 2 Highly Cited Papers listed in Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators. Described by the UK Saturday Times as the ‘new David Livingstone’, Chris’ team communicate their findings in the field as Intrepid Science (intrepidscience.com), reporting discoveries when they happen, where they happen. Chris has received numerous awards, including the Australian Academy of Sciences Frederick Stone Award (2014), the Geological Society of London’s Bigsby Medal (2009), the PhilipLevehulme Prize (2008) and the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) inaugural Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal (2007). To do something positive about climate change, he helped set up a carbon refining company called CarbonScape (www.carbonscape.com) which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products.

Chris is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Meteorological Society, the Geological Society of London, the Royal Geographical Society and the Higher Education Academy.

Helen Millman (PhD candidate) – The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and global sea level change during the Last Interglacial

Susan Rule (PhD candidate) – Centennial to millennial perspectives on tropical climate variability from the last glacial to the present: A palaeoecological analysis from Lynch’s Crater, northeast Queensland

Recently Completed PhDs

Willem Huiskamp – The Southern Hemisphere Westerly winds and their role in climate change during the late Holocene